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Can A Gay man use the IRS deductions for medical expenses and deduct for his in vitro fertilization procedure and its costs? In a short answer no. A Homosexual man in Florida attempted to deduct all his costs for housing and caring for a lady who held his baby as a surrogate. The complicated litigation that followed in the appellate Courts is quite unique and involves heavy use of the IRC. Mr. Morrissey the sperm donor argued that the IRS had special deductions for him and that all expenses related to the in vitro fertilization process should be deductible. Mr. Morrisey speant thousands of dollars on the whole process. He basically took care of the egg donor and the surrogate during the times of the pregnancy. He claimed that a man cannot house the baby therefore he had to spend all this money and it related the medical care costs. Mr. Morrisey in order to get the tax deduction on the caring for the surrogate argued that he himself suffered through the health care needs during the pregnancy process as he was the sperm donor and therefore was somehow apart of the reproductive process and thus should be permitted a huge deduction from the IRS.

The IRC section 213 states that if Mr. Morriseys body was effected by the in vitro fertilization process he could claim a deduction of the $55,000 he paid to get the process of finding a lady and transferring his sperm to her and the process of her getting the egg to inseminate.

The circuit Court of Florida found Mr. Morriseys argument specious and without real merit because his involvement in the in vitro fertilization process was limited at best. The Court argued that he was like every other male a donor of sperm and had limited biological contribution to the production of the baby. The male reproductive position in creating a baby was really a donor sperm and not more than that. The female had to do a lot more on her end as far as creating the baby. They had to hold the egg and then pass the egg to the uterous and house the baby for 9 months which the male counterpart did not. Thust the application of IRC 213 did not apply.

ASHLAND, Ky. (CN) – Two lawsuits against Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis – who refused to marry same-sex couples after the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage – will proceed, but only against Davis in her individual capacity, a federal judge ruled. That measns that the federal that passed will allow same sex couples the same rights concerning divorce as other not same sex couples.

Davis, clerk of Rowan County, Ky., spent five days in jail in 2015 after she was held in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. She claimed her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian prevented her from sanctioning the unions.

In a pair of 21-page rulings issued Friday, U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning disagreed with Davis’ assertion that her policy created a “mere inconvenience” to gay couples – whom she said could have traveled to another county to obtain licenses – and refused to dismiss personal-capacity claims against her.

Edith Windsor loved Thea Spyer. For nearly half a century, the two were partners and eventually were legally married as well. When Spyer died in 2009, though, the federal government didn’t recognize that love on Windsor’s tax forms, expecting her to pay more than $350,000 in estate taxes.

That is, until Windsor fought the law that did not recognize that marriage — and won.

Windsor, whose successful campaign against the Defense of Marriage Act made her an LGBTQ icon, died Tuesday at the age of 88. Judith Kasen-Windsor, whom Windsor married last year, confirmed her death in a statement.

Ex-Hasidic mother from Brooklyn who lost custody of her three children for being gay wins them back in first-of-its-kind legal battle. Chavie Weisberger, who used to be Hasidic, was granted custody of her children after a long legal battle over her sexuality. In 2015 she lost custody because her ex-husband said that she wasn’t fulfilling a religious upbringing clause in their divorce. They were divorced in 2009 after she told him she was attracted to women. Now she has full custody of the three kids again after a years-long legal battle.

A former Hasidic mother temporarily lost custody of her children after coming out as gay, according to a court ruling.

Chavie Weisberger, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, lost custody of her three children and was barred from telling her youngest child about her sexuality after she and her ex-husband divorced in 2009.

A federal judge has ordered Kentucky taxpayers to pay more than $220,000 in legal fees because a county clerk refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015.

U.S. District Judge David Bunning on Friday ordered the state to pay $222,695 in fees to the attorneys of two same-sex couples and others who sued Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to give them marriage licenses. He also awarded $2,008.08 in other costs. Bunning said the county and Davis herself did not have to pay.

“Davis represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky when she refused to issue marriage licenses to legally eligible couples. The buck stops there,” Bunning wrote.